| CNES and Geipan placed over thirty years worth | | | | KFB files on UFOs. I was unimpressed. That's |
| of UFO investigation materials online as of | | | | because I received official Russian News Articles |
| Thursday, March 22, 2007. CNES is the official | | | | and private newsletters published in countries once |
| French Space Agency and Geipan is an agency of | | | | controlled by the Soviets for years before that |
| the French National Police. Are the files a hot | | | | release. These were sent to me by serious |
| Smoking Gun, or just another order of cold | | | | researchers in those countries who appreciated |
| French Fries? | | | | receiving materials from me. |
| CNES receives about fifty to one hundred UFO | | | | Thanks to the efforts of Russian language |
| reports each year. The investigative process they | | | | students who donated their time, most of what I |
| use is convoluted and quite different from what | | | | received was quickly translated and contained a |
| most Americans would expect. Geipan apparently | | | | huge amount of information about the UFO |
| does most of the field work, prepares reports | | | | phenomenon in Russia and Eastern Europe. |
| and passes everything on to CNES. Scientists and | | | | Ironically, I could not find a single incident |
| Engineers take a look at that data and prepare | | | | mentioned in those articles and newsletters that |
| some sort of final report or appraisal of the | | | | matched any in the KGB information releases. I |
| matter in question. | | | | felt then and now that the information I received |
| Jacques Patenet, the aeronautical engineer who | | | | from those individuals was as good or better than |
| heads the office for the study of "non-identified | | | | most of what was released by the KGB. |
| aerospatial phenomena" has said that "the data | | | | In 1989 I had the opportunity to meet Marina |
| that we are releasing doesn't demonstrate the | | | | Lavrentrevna Vasliyevna Popovich at a press |
| presence of extraterrestrial beings. But it doesn't | | | | event in New York City. Marina was a pilot in the |
| demonstrate the impossibility of such presence | | | | Soviet Air Force, holder of thirteen world aviation |
| either. The questions remain open." | | | | records and a former Test Cosmonaut. She |
| On the day of the announcement and press | | | | spoke of personal UFO encounters and those she |
| conference, CNES security was tight. While calling | | | | had heard about from other pilots. While the |
| the release "a world first" and glowing over his | | | | information was fascinating, it was not anywhere |
| nation's openness about the UFO subject, Patenet | | | | near the best that her government had to offer |
| failed to explain the need "to screen out uninvited | | | | about UFOs and Extra-Terrestrial Life. UFO |
| UFOlogists" as an explanation for the added | | | | Researchers would be wise to view the |
| security. This hardly provides evidence for anyone | | | | CNES-Geipan information in the same manner. |
| to believe the agency's files represent a fair and | | | | Like America, France is known for having two |
| unbias look at the phenomenon. However, | | | | faces. Their public face, and the one they use for |
| compared to the actions of their American | | | | behind the scenes political posturing. A good |
| counterpart, this is like allowing people to walk into | | | | example of this recently came to light when it a |
| French Intelligence Headquarters and browse | | | | secret communication between France and Israel |
| through their files. | | | | was leaked to the press. While publicly |
| Every time American UFO Researchers ask their | | | | condemning Israel's advance into Lebanon not long |
| own space agency for any information about | | | | ago, the French Government secretly encouraged |
| astronaut encounters or unusual phenomenon | | | | them to invade Syria and institute a regime |
| encountered by space probes, NASA clams up | | | | change. The USA plays the same games. |
| and sends out the debunkers en force. Although | | | | During the 1990s, President Clinton announced that |
| many Astronauts have been forthcoming and | | | | the government had allowed secret radiation tests |
| very honest about what they have seen in space, | | | | on American Citizens. All he admitted was that |
| the space agency always slams the door on | | | | small amounts of irradiated materials were |
| them. More than a few have been hit right | | | | released into population centers or planted on |
| between the eyes by NASA which claims that | | | | soldiers during military exercises. No one believes |
| the Astronaut statements were the results of | | | | that was all of it and everyone already knew |
| space sickness, fatigue or depression. But before | | | | about military exercises held during and very close |
| we give the French too big a pat on the back, | | | | to atomic bomb tests. Clinton certainly did not |
| let's look at what's being released. | | | | make mention of how the CIA implanted tiny |
| The CNES-Geipan reports only represent what | | | | devices into the heads of U.S. and Canadian |
| people have reported to the French Government | | | | psychiatric patients for over twenty years |
| as UFO sightings and encounters. This is in no | | | | without permission. Nor did he discuss any of the |
| way, shape or form a release of information that | | | | other government mind control or remote viewing |
| allows us to examine all that the French know | | | | projects which have left large numbers of victims |
| about the phenomenon. Although the | | | | in their wake. |
| investigations have obviously been handled in a | | | | Information releases like the latest from CNES |
| more competent and professional manner, this is | | | | and Geipan can only be helpful in terms of |
| really little more than a French version of the U.S. | | | | research and data, but no one should give France, |
| Project Blue Book Report. | | | | Russia or any other nation credit for what should |
| We have seen these types of releases before | | | | have been done all along. It would be a mistake to |
| over the past several decades. In each case, the | | | | offer nations like these kudos for releasing bits |
| information came from individual government | | | | and pieces of UFO and other paranormal research |
| agencies, not the government itself. I recall when | | | | data when so much still remains secret. |
| everyone got all excited about the release of the | | | | |